UK Conservatives lose London strongholds, in blow to Johnson
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s governing Conservatives suffered local election losses Friday in their few London strongholds and other parts of the U.K. — results that will pile more pressure on…
50 more civilians rescued from besieged steel plant in Mariupol
‘Women, children and elderly people’ evacuated from Azovstal plant amid claims Russia violated a ceasefire. Russian forces have pulverised much of Mariupol, which had a prewar population of more than…
Nasdaq leads S&P 500, Dow Jones lower again, extending Thursday’s plunge
Matteo Colombo/DigitalVision via Getty Images The stock market posted modest losses on Friday, failing to bounce back from Thursday’s massive selling spree. In a choppy session, the S&P 500 tested…
U.S. unemployment rate remains at pandemic low of 3.6 percent
U.S. employers added 428,000 jobs in April, capping a year of solid growth and adding more fuel to an already robust recovery. The unemployment rate remained steady at a pandemic…
Starbucks ‘deeply concerned’ White House didn’t invite company rep to meeting with union organizers
Starbucks Genese St. shift supervisor Caroline Lerczak on forming the first Starbucks union in the U.S. Starbucks is asking for a sit-down with Biden administration officials after the White House…
Crocs giving away 10,000 pairs of shoes, free scrubs for health care workers during Nurses Week
Crocs has brought back its “Free Pair for Healthcare” program for the third year and in time for National Nurses Week. The company is partnering with FIGS to give 10,000…
Listen To A Bunch Of EVE Online Nerds Go Wild Over An Official Excel Collab
Image: CCP Games During the keynote of this weekend’s EVE Fanfest convention in Reykjavik, Iceland, EVE Online creative director Bergur Finnbogason previewed an upcoming collaboration between the spacefaring MMO and…
Xbox plans to launch a streaming puck and Samsung app in the next year
Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Microsoft is done waiting for you to come to Xbox. Instead, the…
How Apple, Google, and Microsoft will kill passwords and phishing in one stroke
Enlarge Getty Images For more than a decade, we’ve been promised that a world without passwords is just around the corner, and yet year after year, this security nirvana proves…
Google wants your initial Android 13 feedback with Beta 1 survey
Google started asking Android Beta Program users for feedback with version 11 in 2020. With Android 13 moving on from the developer preview phase last week, the Beta 1 feedback…